Jung's landmark seminar sessions on dream interpretation and its
history
From 1936 to 1941, C. G. Jung gave a four-part seminar series in Zurich
on children's dreams and the historical literature on dream
interpretation. This book completes the two-part publication of this
landmark seminar, presenting the sessions devoted to dream
interpretation and its history. Here we witness Jung as both clinician
and teacher: impatient and sometimes authoritarian but also witty, wise,
and intellectually daring, a man who, though brilliant, could be
vulnerable, uncertain, and humbled by life's mysteries. These sessions
open a window on Jungian dream interpretation in practice, as Jung
examines a long dream series from the Renaissance physician Girolamo
Cardano. They also provide the best example of group supervision by Jung
the educator. Presented here in an inspired English translation
commissioned by the Philemon Foundation, these sessions reveal Jung as
an impassioned teacher in dialogue with his students as he developed and
refined the discipline of analytical psychology.
An invaluable document of perhaps the most important psychologist of the
twentieth century at work, this splendid book is the fullest
representation of Jung's interpretations of dream literatures, filling a
critical gap in his collected works.